Lars-Erik Bruce - Curriculum Vitae

Contact information

Education

Master degree

University of Oslo2010, August — 2012, September

Informatics: Language and Communication

In this field of study I achieved a deep understanding of language technology and scientific research methods.
Moreover I gained a specialized knowledge about extracting information from unstructured sources.

Bachelor degree

University of Oslo2007, August — 2010, May

Information Technology: Language, Logic and Psychology

During my bachelor I obtained a solid proficiency in programming, delving into both object oriented (Java) and functional programming (Scheme, Common Lisp).
I also got insight into the theoretical aspects of computer science, as well as philosophy of language and mind. Lastly I gained familiarity language technology, like machine translation, natural language interfaces and processing unstructured textual information.

cXense

System Developer, Summer intern2011, June — August

cXense developes and delivers services for contextual advertising. I helped develope technology for parsing meta-data and analyze textual content on web pages, as well as implementing new GUI elements. Technologies include Java and JavaScript.

University of Oslo

Research assistant2010, May — August

Semicolon was a project dealing with organizational and semantic interoperability within the public sector. As part of this I investigated the possibility of using semantic technologies for visualizing and distribute the content in StatBank Norway.

Assisting teacher2009, May — 2012, May

I have been assisting teacher in three different courses: Introduction to cognitive sciences (one semester), logic and computability (two semesters) and computer linguistics (one semester).

I have also been co-examiner in the course on logic and computability, as well as helped develop a set of exercises for a similar course.

ICA Norge A/S

Employee at delicacy desk2006, April — 2010, August

Part-time job next to my studies in several of their supermarkets' delicacy desks.

Fagdata A/S

Apprentice2004 — 2006

As an apprentice my responsibility included setup and maintainance of computers and servers, office machinery such as printers, scanners, thin clients, etc.